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EventDate
Death of women’s rights campaigner Agnes Brown 1st December
Timex calls time on its Dundee factory 28th August
Trades unionist Willie Gallacher dies 12th August
Suffragists interrupt Churchill in Dundee 25th June
Faslane Peace Camp is established 12th June
Miners organise a march on Edinburgh 11th June
The Radical War begins 1st April
Artist and suffragist Ann Macbeth dies 23rd March
Singer factory workers go on strike 21st March
Lee Jeans workers go on strike 5th February
Trades union leader Margaret Irwin dies 23rd January
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The Falkirk Wheel opens for business

17 July

The Bank of Scotland is founded

20 August

Cartoonist Dudley D Watkins dies in Broughty Ferry

24 January

Wall-building emperor Hadrian is born

09 March

Adam Smith publishes The Wealth of Nations


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